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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 5, 2013 | Sotheby's | London | Surrealist Art | 50 | $****** - ****** | Les Belles Relations |
paintings
41 x 33 cm (16.14 x 12.99 in)
oil on canvas
signed Magritte (lower left); titled on the reverse
Pierre & Yvette Scheidweiler, Brussels (acquired from the artist in 1967, until at least 1985)
Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels
Acquired by the present owner by 1999
Art Belge. Numéro René Magritte, Brussels, January 1968, illustrated p. 70; Harry Torczyner, Magritte, Ideas and Images, New York, 1977, no. 266, illustrated in colour p. 141; Harry Torczyner, Le Veritable Art de Peindre - Magritte, Paris, 1978, no. 67, illustrated in colour p. 59; Grands Peintres: René Magritte, Paris, 1988, illustrated in colour p. 2; David Sylvester (ed.), Sarah Whitfield & Michael Raeburn, René Magritte. Catalogue raisonné, London, 1993, vol. III, no. 1059, illustrated p. 442; Siegfried Gohr, Magritte, Attempting the Impossible, New York, 2009, no. 407, illustrated in colour p. 298
